Linux Crash Course - Formatting & Mounting Storage Volumes

[@mrrobbles]

Bro... I can't thank you enough for this. 20 years in the IT world and just getting into ZFS. It's been rough.. Until I found this. I love the pausing points for commands, to extra info and everything you displayed. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS! Legit helped solve 15+ issues I was having you rock!

[@ricardokullock2535]

My brain *really* wants to type the "n" in the "umount" command. I don't type it, but it's like an itch. Every. Single. Time. Makes me think it's like this on purpose, like someone had a dark sense of humor. Great videos by the way, you're very pedagogical.

[@spruce-bogey]

$ alias unmount=umount

[@ricardokullock2535]

@@spruce-bogey That’s actually a great idea, simple, effective. Thank you.

[@michaelheimbrand5424]

Yeah. And we also need an alias called "fsidk" to fdisk. Don't know why. That's how my brain tries to type it...everytime.

[@marklamarr3576]

lol same here!!

[@brandhark7935]

OMG SAME LMAO

[@EduardoReyesDPM]

Amazing job... You've summed up what's taking me many months possibly years of random research and summed it up in 30 minutes in a definitive manner

[@EliteBuildingCompany]

I couldn't access the new hard drive initially, so i had to take further steps: -make sure you are mounted to the new folder -then change owner with, chown username -R /mnt/yourfolder I was now able to save and access files. I then modified the fstab for auto mount at start. Great tutorial, danke.

[@rudyleplane727]

I learn soooo much from you every video! Priceless Linux tutorials!

[@veggiebroth5542]

I started studying for my redhead certification and I know so much of the material already just from following along with your videos. You could seriously charge for these things. You've been an invaluable source of information

[@MeMe-ic6rc]

People are not same.

[@holgerd5242]

I'd love to get a certification in redheads. Is there a certification for brunettes too?

[@jimle22]

He does have a paid Linux Certification course on Udemy.

[@Tomfoolery8869]

Redhate

[@mason8714]

I learn so much from you its unreal! thank you so far for all the content. i like the way you explain how things work or what things do for simple people like me. 38 and still trying to get in to linux (windows user for over 25 years.) always wanted to learn linux but never put any time in to it till this year. purchased your latest book too. keep up the fantastic work jay!

[@daiblaze1396]

Same here ! No longer a beginner in Linux but I still discover new stuff or understand way more what it meant thanks to him. Beginners keep it up. You'll wonder what you have been doing on losedos.

[@mortenlund1418]

You deserve many more likes. Your way of explaining is perfect. Thanks a lot.

[@CocolinoFan]

23:40 Thank you for telling me, I will mount things properly from now on. But that's why I love to use Linux it lets you do what you want :D you are the ADMIN of the machine

[@AlayDhagia]

Very informative hands on once you have theoretical knowledge on the topics. Thank you for putting this up!!

[@nickya-yv9ep]

literally greatest youtube video I've ever seen. tyxm!!!!

[@jamesr736]

I'm a bit late, but adding this for others who are in my shoes. The flag used at 20:30 only applies to the mkfs.exfat command. If you use the mkfs.ext4 command, >use -L "label"< instead

[@NekomatchaJun]

Thank you for the tutorial even though I'm years late to it. This helped me revive a drive that I had been using for a Windows 11 system that was not behaving on Linux despite being a compatible format.

[@elnurvalikhanli6783]

This guy is so intelligent!

[@arturooo78]

Best tutorial for absolute beginners. 10/10

[@elielberra2867]

Wow these series of videos are amazing! I can't explain how thankful I am for all the content you posted, I've learned a lot! Your explanations have a good pace and you put everything on super understandable terms :)

[@pk-all-day]

I got lucky today and kept getting served all the tutorials of yours that I needed to approach/wrap up a project! Another good explainer.

[@phaedrus2633]

This got me out of a rut. I was pulling my hair out trying to edit /etc/fstab to work correctly for a Nextcloud install. If I only used Linux a lot more, I would grasp the concept of partitioning and adding a file system to a hard drive, or any drive. Thank you so much!

[@docmalitt]

hi, it's been a while but this subject is timeless (just like Linux) so to install exfat on the system @18:22 you need to change 'exfat-utils' to 'exfatprogs' - at least on Pop-OS Jammy (22.04 LTS) - in case anyone gets an error regarding 'exafat-utils' package. Otherwise... HUGE fan of your entire work. Thank you for dedicating life (spare time) in teaching lazy bastards like me :)

[@jamescarson4507]

Came across your video yesterday, and my problems were solved And i had one nice Saturday... Thanks👍

[@bobbylibertini]

This was [Tony The Tiger voice:] GGRRrrreat! I've been using Linux exclusively for the last 14 years, but I'm just learning this stuff due to some trouble I had with an SD card and a thumb drive...had fixed my problem already, but wanted a good understanding so I'll be prepared for next time......and now I feel like a pro! Thank you.

[@youtubeoneverything4581]

I love your videos so much. neat, noob friendly & to-the-point. I'm really looking forward to your fstab video. finally there is going to be a video which explains everything about auto mounting in boot in a beginner friendly way

[@edison3571]

A large thank you! As a newbie, you go slow enough for me to understand and feel comfortable working with the terminal.

[@t.harris4309]

Awesome tutorial. You got me restarted with Linux. I've played around with it off and on but now i want to focus more on it and you video really helped.

[@cristif92]

I am here for understanding how operate a cmd line debian, in short a Raspberry Pi (lite) machine. very helpfull video. Can't wait to watch the second one, with the fstab file 🙂

[@GustavAgar]

I wish i have money to pay you for what you are doing, but im still a broken student. I have learnt a lot through your videos and i soon as i have a job i will become your patreon

[@skoishmaloish499]

Thanks so much for the detailed video. This is the third video I watched to figure out how disk formatting and mounting works in Linux, and yours was the one that finally helped me figure it out. Thanks for all your awesome content!

[@yomisaurio]

Thank you Jay for such useful information and your efforts sharing the knowledge. Kind regards from mexico

[@D3M0320]

Your videos are absolutely fantastic and I appreciate all of the knowledge you share!

[@rajeshroshan2877]

Thank you for these wonderfully clear and well taught tutorials.

[@AriannaEuryaleMusic]

Thank you for teaching all this, I´ve learned a lot from your tutorials. My notebook is almost full (Kali Linux user here)

[@jonemiller9603]

Linode is pretty good for Linux in my opinion I think what will make it better is adding modules for beginners and advanced users

[@guillermolopez7327]

Thank you so much Jay, you are uniq && sudo. I saw one of your most personal videos. The one you talked about being stubborn and achieve your dreams. You are such an inspiration! Quick update on your video. lsblk command on Ubuntu 24 is way less clogged with -e7 flag. It removes the annoying loops partitions. lsblk -e7

[@teomcam]

The best channel to learn Linux 👍🏻 Thank you so much sir 👍🏻

[@gracienlebel4824]

This tutorial is gold! 😍😍

[@brod515]

@9:53 another good command for this is `watch lsblk` which will just refresh automatically after an interval it's much clearer like this (the screen just refreshes)

[@guillermolopez7327]

Wow! Thanks!

[@Jonathan-ru9zl]

Mann this is so professional .. keep doing those amazing tutorials ,./.🙏🙏

[@ALR0808]

I am so glad to have found your channel. Thank you very much for all of that information; it was very helpful.

[@Sabee_2024]

Very helpful and exactly what I needed, Thank you!!

[@flexyjayofficial163]

Your videos are top notch the content is second to none

[@Superman12321]

Thank you for you help and all your videos. I've been watching a lot of your videos and they have been super helpful for a beginner like me. You are awesome and keep up the great work.

[@neenus]

ncdu is an awesome tool that I did not know about until today so thank you for that!!

[@adzim325]

Thank you sir, your explanation so clear but please add a separator for each sub explanation, it might make it easier for viewers. Once again thank you sir

[@peponvatrahedes7392]

Excellent guide! I also faced a problem where I couldn't manage the new partition as a User. So I had to do "sudo chown user:user /mount_dir" to gain ownership.

[@dragonek_gnu_linux_pl]

amazing tutorial, more advenced but this is most important to know how to manage disks, mount then and umount etc without gui applications. Next one what i want to see here is tutorial how to manage networks on terminal, wireless also and how to do it without networkmanager on gentoo or other distros. You help us alot :)

[@srsr6099]

Learnt something new again. Cool. Thanks Jay

[@cleightthejw2202]

I definitely appreciate these videos you make and put out for us to learn from Even appreciate those security videos series you do (which is up to like 34 videos at the moment)

[@vegasmagicman]

who tf downvotes this

[@BierPizzaChips]

Maybe somebody old with bad eyes like me having trouble distinguishing the two little thumbs on the mobile being so close to each other.😂

[@Lemon-e2y]

someone who clearly sees his bs, he didn’t say how to properly allocate specific memory size to a partition

[@billgates3699]

@@Lemon-e2ybingo. Another downvote for me

[@nxzstudio8495]

A hateful windows user or Microsoft employee?

[@mrrobot-mn6re]

Probably crowdstrike employees

[@ME-yi3qf]

Awesome simple easy to follow video. Thank you

[@zt.5677]

Great Linux tutorials. And special thanks for the Proxmox videos.

[@takshpatel8109]

thank you so much, i found your videos more useful for linux and linode

[@clivesgarage]

this is sooooo frustrating. I cannot find the previous video you talking about. I've searched everywhere. What is the title of the video please?

[@epygod]

Thank you very much. Very good Video, with on the point information! 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Moonlight0551]

Thank you, I am learning so much. BTW I found with my version of Ubuntu ,22.04 Jammy, when it came to installing the exfat option for mkfs I had to use 'sudo apt install exfatprogs'

[@fj12gaming86]

Thank you much sir.... ❤️❤️❤️... From 🇵🇭...

[@gregorydayton5428]

Jay, that was a great video. I learned a lot. Thank You

[@KolyaNadj]

Nice video man. So many helpful commands.

[@dennisdevine9563]

Great video tutorial, thank you also for the sweet extra option of the ncdu command

[@ilyagurenko4190]

Thank you for the thorough walkthrough !

[@kayathecloudkid]

Fantastic tutorial, thanks Jay.

[@ym3r854]

Explanations are top notch!

[@try-that]

nice and concise video! I hope you do a video on /etc/fstab that still has stacks of stuff in it that I don't really understand, i.e. user permissions, error checking, how to allow partition to be accessed by anyone, rather than samba. I hope you do do one.

[@vitalysemichev5868]

Amazing video and explanations! Loved it! Thank you very much!

[@ujjwalbansal5649]

This is a super awesome tutorial sir...

[@goman7614]

Excellent presentation. I would like to see how your mount a USB drive to a Kubernetes cluster as persistent storage running ubuntu. Thanks

[@jenBeeDee]

thanks for this channel, it is much appreciated. Having been troubled by invalid blocks on a SSD (ouchy ;-) I sought advice and received: "Invalid blocks is usually a hardware failure. The drive is most likely dead or at least dying. With Windows by the way it should have not being fat32 but NTFS. For Ubuntu a better choice then ext2 is ext4 you seem to be working from some very old ideas" I've not got the time to pursue rehabilitation of the poorly SSD at the moment but will try again 'in due course'. Thanks again for this valuable resource.

[@coletraintechgames2932]

Thank you Jay. I'm trying to mount a zfs pool to proxmox. Do you have a video more towards that? Thanks again. This was a good foundation.

[@kevinvanderlei3271]

A very helpful video! Thank you very much!

[@zeppelinmexicano]

This is a useful vid for all this device type stuff.

[@trial000000000000001]

Very informative. Thank you 😀

[@johnmcgiv1]

Great videos, excellent presentation Jay. I am 70+ trying to teach myself Linux. I installed linux mint22 only problem being boot time, about 6/7 minutes I have tried several solutions but unable to reduce boot time Acer Aspire 5735 4g/b mem 500g/b HDD 64bit dual processor, any suggestions most welcome, many thanks for your videos.

[@vvatchout]

For those on a distro 22.04 and later exfat-utils no longer available install exfatprogs instead then run the command

[@yuvrajsingh-vk7fj]

Very very helpful and clear👍🏻

[@peterjansen4826]

Apparently I am a bad boy, I don't mount partitions in /mnt or /media (not even existing on Arch out of the box), I mount partitions in my home-folder. Why? Because file-managers and terminals open in your home-folder by default (I see no reason to change that) so I prefer to access it from there.

[@stefanomarini8468]

Thank you for your teaching!

[@RicoRico33110]

Thank you....i've been trying this for so long ..i really appreciate your work..Great job.

[@Кит-ю6у]

Nearly perfect video.... except you left out the part that I need. I want to partition my nvme to install Arch linux. EVERYTHING that I find is showing the Windows process. I found some tools, but nothing specifically gives directions for creating a partition. What do you use to get the p1 and p2?

[@brainstormsurge154]

Would really like it if you ran through also using cfdisk, gdisk, cgdisk and parted.

[@FossWolf]

I know how to do this still I watched. Very well explained

[@techWithNaushad]

Thank you so much for your tutorials.

[@bojackhorsingaround]

Such a wonderful tutorial. Thank you :)

[@IsuCompare]

very professional and clear

[@marklamarr3576]

this geezer is gold

[@IamDoQtorNo]

Great video. Appreciate the content. I installed a baracuda 2nd hd, that I am planning on using primarily as the SQL server. my boot drive is an ssd. How do I install sql server on that drive? Do you ahve a video that speaks on that? Also, if i understand your steps correctly in the video, mount the HD, then fdisk to format it?

[@jyothsnareddy5634]

I learnt so much from ur teachings....are there any docs with the linux commands

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

this video was a good refresh :)

[@landlocked4771]

Thank you, did it all on Fedora 34. Have you made a reference book on this, in a week I won't remember "ncdu"?

[@packetcreeper]

Very helpful video!

[@harvestspam]

Thanks Jay! Could you do a video about data / RAID scrubbing? (theory, best practices)

[@abdouabdou1089]

Thank you very much Jay that's was realy helpful

[@theshowmanuk]

Great tutorials. Fantastic Thank you,

[@f23anone82]

Great video and great series! Do I need to always create the new folder inside /mnt to mount a new device (which means, I have to remove dir every time I unmount)? What would happen if I try to mount directly to /mnt?

[@geoffreyrenemoiens3089]

Thank you for a great video Jay :) One question: Lets say that I have several SATA and NVMe drives on my system on a fresh Linux install. How can I make sure they are all mounted and have the correct ownership?

[@Jayphil1]

Hey i am doing this on my steamdeck. I ran the command to show me where are the suitsble mount points but i noticed i only see mnt which is used to mount my system. I do not see media. My mountpoint for my sd card is /run/media which is the defaulr as it should be but for some reason the card will not mount no matter what

[@peterjansen4826]

Every Linux user needs to know how to mount blockdevices. Every Linux user! I recommend to just use fstab for it.

[@peterjansen4826]

@AstroCat Not mounting storage volumes, that is what you do with fstab. I haven't watched it yet (the thumbnail and title speak about mounting sotrage volumes) but this definitely is fundamental Linux-knowledge which every Linux user requires sooner or later. Of course in the case of some Linux-distros you first need to create the fstab file yourself.

[@peterjansen4826]

​@AstroCat Dude, I have been using Linux for years, you don't have to explain to me how it works! I have watched the video in the meantime, nothing new. Why I commented before watching the video? Because the title and thumbnail very clearly explain what the video is about, I understood that because I have been using Linux for years and I know how it works. I pointed out that EVERY Linux user ought to know how to work with fstab. Not every Linux user has to be able to make partitions or format from the terminal. You might be a lot more careful with making uninformed assumptions based on one or two sentences from another person whom you don't know. This video was about fstab and the other stuff, I reacted on the fstab part because THAT is what every user needs to know. I can't be more clear than this so I will leave it at this. Please be a bit less antagonistic and hostile in the future, especially when you don't know the other person.

[@charlesklein7232]

at 21:01 you said that you covered the "forward slash" (/) in anther video, which video? how do i find it?

[@nesternunez8430]

Wow. This video was awesome. 😮

[@cybernit3]

I am trying to format my usb flash drive and tried to follow Linux TV directions but have an error. I unmount sda; sudo umount /media/alext/'UBUNTU 24_0' lsblk // yes, it unmounted sudo fdisk /dev/sda fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Read-only file system then back to the prompt... Perhaps this usb flash drive is dead so it sets a flag for read only. I used this usb drive to install ubuntu but want to use it for something else. It is a 64 GB Team Group usb drive. Thanks if anyone can help....

[@guillermolopez7327]

if you are still on Linux and you have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) you can always use gparted. Very easy to install on virtually any linux distribution. You don't have to use the command line for this. Hope this helps.

[@angelgil577]

thank you jay you are the best.

[@magicmanj32]

Great tutorial, very informative